Image printed in the chapter about the 29th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
A. & A. R. The intermediate Degrees 19º – 29º A.C.F. Jackson (1982)
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Image printed in the chapter about the 29th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
A. & A. R. The intermediate Degrees 19º – 29º A.C.F. Jackson (1982)
Detail of a 28th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board. The explanation goes:
Continue readingThe words lux ex tenebris show us that mankind, enlightened by the light of wisdom and faith, can penetrate easily the obscurity of ignorance and superstition.
With three candles you may have to think of the “Greater Lights” of Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, but on this 28th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board, they have quite another meaning.
Continue readingThe 3 candles symbolize man’s life – youth, manhood, old age – lit by the lights of truth.
the three letters ‘S’ mean Science adorned with Sagacity makes the Saintly Man. (There are various variations of this interpretation in early rituals.
From a 28th degree Ancient Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board.
Continue readingThe Chest, guarded by the Sovereign Commanders, where the Key of the Temple is kept
Detail of a 27th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board.
Also see chest with three keys.
Continue readingA gold bar on a 26th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite “floor cloth”.
Continue readingOn a 26th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite “floor cloth”.
Continue readingOn a 26th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite “floor cloth”.
Continue readingOn a 26th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite “floor cloth”.
Continue reading“An Angel in a Cloud” on a 26º AASR “floor cloth”.
Continue readingA “lighted log” on a 26º AASR “floor cloth”.
Continue readingContinue reading2 The Very Puissant’s sceptre made of a rule with, at the top, an open compass and a shining triangle.
On a 23º AASR tracing board.
Continue readingAn axe, a saw a hammer; wood working tools in a 22º AASR tracing board.
Continue readingMore frequent than just a down-pointing arrow is the downwards-pointing arrow in a triangle. I am not sure if the two symbols refer to the same. The arrow in a triangle is an ancient Masonic symbol. You can find a beautiful one in the Mutus Liber Latamorum (1765):
Continue readingContinue reading2. The Celestial City with the Tree of Life in the centre.
A Cosmic Cross enclosing the letters C, K, A, A, and S.
That is all the description you get for this element on the tracing board below.
Continue readingThe Grave stone on which are carved the Hebrew letters (right to left): – Cheth, Vau, Resh, Mem; below these: – Alepth, Beth, Yod. Below this inscription is an equilateral Triangle enclosing the Hebrew letter Yod.
Often on third degree tracing boards, you see the letters H and A in Masonic cipher or M and A. The former refers to Hiram Abiff, the latter to the password of the third degree. Here we have Hebrew letters spelling: CVRM ABY, which -I suppose- stands for “Churam (Hiram) Aby (Abiff).
Continue readingNot unexpectedly, but I hadn’t ran into it yet, King Solomon also had a palace. Here you can see it on a sixth degree AASR tracing board.
Continue readingSolomon’s Temple showing the door and approach path.
Detail of an interesting looking fifth degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board. The description says:
Continue readingAn Obelisk surmounted by a funerary Urn.